Total passenger car parc in European part of the country on 1.01.2011 was 24.3 million cars. The structure of the parc in European and Eastern parts of Russia differs a lot. Domestic brands are leading in the parc of European part

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Vladivostok has all preconditions for the creation of automotive cluster during the nearest five years, said the governor of Primorsk region, Sergey Darkin, by commenting the signed memorandum of Sollers and Mazda about the assembly plant creation.

The first serial Lada Granta sedan was produced yesterday, informed the correspondent of AUTOSTAT agency from the ceremony of new model launch. As the president of AutoVAZ, Igor Komarov, informed, since that day Lada Granta cars will be delivered to dealers.

Lada Granta cars, the serial production of which was started yesterday in AutoVAZ, will be equipped with three power aggregates in dependence on configuration. AUTOSTAT agency was informed about it in the ceremony of new model launch and it was remarked that the upgraded 8-valves engine (90 HP) with volume 1,6L was developed for Granta.

By the results of ten months of 2011 sales of Citroen cars were 31% with the present credit offers. Citroen Company together with Citroen Financial Services offered special terms of loans with the decreased interest rate from 2% for 12 months for a purchase of a new Citroёn C4 till December 31st.

AutoVAZ started the serial production of new low cost car Lada Granta on November 29th. Since that day all new Lada Granta will be delivered to dealers for implementation of orders that were received on web site www.lada.ru and for forming the stock that provide a choice of configurations and colours. This car will be on sale in December of 2011.

French concern Renault, that increases production in Russia, supposes that car market of country will reach the pre-crisis level the next year and it evaluates the potential more optimistic than the experts of Association of European Business (AEB), said the head of Renault in Russia, Bruno Anselen.

On November 26th Sollers Company and Japanese car producer Mazda Motor Corp. signed a memorandum about intents, according to which the parties plan to launch a new joint venture on the site of «Sollers – Far East». The joint venture will work on parities basement and production is planned to be launched the next year. New enterprise will produce cars for the further sales in the Russian market.

Italian car producer Fiat closed a plant in Termini Imerese near Palermo. Therewith, the production of cars was stopped two years ago after the decision has been announced. Management of company explained the stop of assembly of cars on Sicily by the high cost of logistics.

The WTO entry of Russia will lead to redistribution of shares of big car producers in the Russian market in a favour of companies from China and South Korea, experts that were interviewed by “Interfax” suppose. Therewith, Russian plants will loose competitive advantage of low prices.

Byelorussian vehicle plant (BelAZ) and “Mechel” company concluded an agreement about delivery of mining trucks for ten years. Besides, “BelAZ” will deliver spare parts to dump trucks, organize production of trucks platforms and mining trucks in facilities of “Mechel” and it will also lead an assessment of subsidiary of “Mechel” as one of service centre of Byelorussian company.

French car producer Renault will start the large-scale production of sedan Latitude and crossover Koleos in its Moscow plant “Autoframos” in 2012, said the president of Renault in Russia and CIS, Bruno Anselen. By his words “Autoframos” has already started the assembly of test samples of these cars. He didn’t reveal the volume of production capacities.

AutoVAZ has to examine the inheritance of company AVVA (“Russian automotive alliance) in several years after it was liquidated. Car plant is trying to recover a debt of 109 million Roubles that company AVVA gave to little known “Managing company “Torgovy kvartal” shortly before it was liquidated.

KAMAZ had a profit in October of 2011, which by joint stock was 267 million Roubles and by group of companies KAMAZ was 582 million Roubles. By the words of the deputy general manager of KAMAZ – finance director, Elena Milinova, due to the strict measures of management, the company managed to optimize significantly the arose costs, to increase sales volumes and also to smooth partially the negative finance result, that was received by the results of nine months of 2011.

Slovenian company “TPV Rus” got the first certificate of resident of special economic zone of Togliatti, where it will build a plant with a capacity of 600 thousand of vehicle components of seats per a year.

Russian market of light commercial vehicles has the fourth place in “European championship” the second consecutive month, estimated analysts of AUTOSTAT agency. Therewith, sales of LCV in Russia showed the highest growth among the leading countries of Europe.

The leading Russian producer of vehicles of increased passability – Ulyanovsk plant - celebrated its 70th anniversary on November 25th. There were produced more than 4,5 million vehicles, more than 100 configurations and there were exported more than 600 thousand of SUVs in more than 100 countries for 70 years.

AutoVAZ is going to enter markets of Middle East, Africa, developing countries and Europe, said the president of AutoVAZ, Igor Komarov, in the interview in a program “Dialog with” of RBK TV. Therewith, he remarked that AutoVAZ increased export by 20% in CIS countries in 2011.

GAZ Group will deliver 90 frontal loaders of “Chelyabinsk construction vehicles” plant production till the end of 2011 within the agreement that was concluded between Government of Russian Federation and Government of Cuba Republic about delivery of construction and agricultural vehicles. The total cost of loaders that will be delivered is 10 million dollars.

There were given more than 200 thousand of credits by program of preferential lending in 2011, which was resumed at the end of January. According to the data of Ministry of industry and trade as of November 10th, banks gave 212067 of car loans by subsidized state rates and accepted 481635 of applications.

KAMAZ formed the volume of orders for vehicles delivery in the first quarter of 2012. It will be delivered about 9 thousand of vehicles to corporative clients in accordance with the concluded agreements, among which "GASPROM", "NK Rosneft", "Holding MRSK", "AK Transneft" and also power ministries and agencies of RF.

There will be a grand ceremony of a launch of new low cost Lada Granta car in a serial production on November 29th. This car will be on sale in December of 2011. As the press-centre of AutoVAZ informed earlier AUTOSTAT agency, about 80% of new model will be produced in configuration "norm" and 20% - in the cheapest version "standard" in the nearest future.

The plant Ural of GAZ Group delivered more than 60 of four-wheel drive vehicles to construction holding "Stroygasconsalting". These vehicles will be used for construction of gas network systems "Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok and "Bovanenkovo-Uchta".

Chinese producer of commercial vehicles JAC Motors that earlier announced about its entry in the Russian market, informed some details about sales plans. As informed earlier in JAC Motors, several models of LCV should be on sale at the same time, which are equipped with engines Cummins, mechanical transmissions, hydraulic steering booster and brakes with ABS.

Buyers of Chevrolet Niva write down the list of queue for a term up to half of year: production plan of the claimed configurations was lower than the real demand and suppliers of components don't have time to react on these changes.

Japanese car producer Mitsubishi Motors hold negotiations with Suzuki Motor Corp. about sales of compact electric cars with Suzuki brand. According to the preliminary project, details of which are being discussed, the first deliveries of cars are planned to be in February of 2012. The full volume of deliveries must be reached during the next financing year, which starts in Japan on April 1st.

Russian dealers of Nissan start to accept orders for upgraded Nissan GT-R, which will appear in dealer centres in the spring of 2012. The main changes of flagman of model range were made in engine, chassis and transmission. The price of Nissan GT-R will be from 4 million 410 thousand to 4 million 460 thousand Roubles in dependence on configuration.

AutoVAZ launched sales of new configuration of crossover Lada 4x4: this vehicle got ABS and TRC (traction control). Cars of new configuration are equipped with 8-valves engine of standard “Euro-4, hydraulic power steering, immobilizer, indication of non-fasten safety belt of a driver and system for children fastening ISOFIX.

The former head of board of directors in IzhAuto and one of senior managers of group of companies SOK, Andrey Frolov, refuted versions of investigation about premeditated bankruptcy of enterprise and also the information of mass media about his arrest in Dubai and release on bail.

Federal antimonopoly service (FAS) supposes that the law about trade could concern relationships of car producers and dealers in a year. But officials are going to present a claim of dealers’ discrimination to some distributors in the nearest future, wrote “Vedomosti” newspaper.

AutoVAZ plans to produce new developments every half of year: there will be the first Lada with automatic transmission in show rooms in July of 2012 and new four-wheel drive with Lada brand in 2013. The head of direction of dealer network development in AutoVAZ, Konstantin Bocharov, informed about it.

French car producer Renault will start to develop ultra low cost car in January of 2012, which will be cheaper than the most available Logan and it will cost about 2,5 thousand Euro. French publishing La Tribune informed about it with the referring to its sources.The project of the cheapest Renault will be realized under the guidance of Gerard Deturbe, who is the head of department responsible for available cars.

Russia will decrease import duties for new passenger cars with electric engines after the WTO entry by 2017 from 20% to 15%. This duty will be decreased from 2013 in accordance with the document about Russian obligations for WTO entry

There were produced 9037 cars in Izhevsk plant by the results of October and it was less by 9,9% than the indicator of the previous month. The press office of AutoVAZ informed about it “Interfax” agency and they explained that the decision about slowdown of production rates was connected with the state scrappage program finishing and terms reconsidering of preferential car lending. The production volume of October was occupied by 3614 cars of Lada 2104, 4842 – Lada 2107, 581 – IZH-27175.

AutoVAZ sold 13968 cars by scrappage program in October and it was more by 1,3% than in the previous month. As the press-centre of AutoVAZ informed AUTOSTAT agency, Ministry of industry and trade together with dealers canceled unused certifications that were given earlier and they could be used again. So, there was an insignificant sales surge by scrappage program in October due to these renew certificates.

AutoVAZ plans to set three models in Izhevsk assembly line during ten years, the same number of models will be produced by alliance Renault-Nissan in “IzhAuto” facilities. The next year will be the last for “classic” model of AutoVAZ, which gave significant sales volume to Togliatti plant (it will be produced 55 thousand of cars).

Government of Udmurtia approved an agreement about collaboration for Centre of development and production of innovative electronic components creation. The creation of joint venture is presumed to be with a participation of “Sarapul radio plant” (100% of shares are belong to Udmurtia through “Izhavia”) and “AAC-Invest”, managing company of commerce and industry group “AutoAudioCentre” (AAC-Group).

According to the agency «Auto-Dealer-SPb», St. Petersburg plants Hyundai, General Motors, Nissan and Toyota produced 29700 cars in October and it was 3,3 times more than it was in the previous year. So, the best result of cars in this city for a month was upgraded, which was set before in September (more by 1100 cars).

Minister of industry and trade of Russia, Victor Christenko, confessed that the entry of Russia into World Trade Organization will be painful for many Russian branches and he supposes that authorities must find instruments for these risks decreasing. According to the words of Minister, this union will require “acceleration of all processes of modernization and technological renovation”

Italian concern Fiat has finally defined the company, which will represent its interest in the Russian market, after the termination of business with Sollers. The distributor of Fiat in Russia will be company “Chrysler Rus” (Russian subsidiary of American concern Chrysler, which is controlled by Fiat) from January 1st of 2012. As “Chrysler Rus” Company informed, reorganization is being made and it is early to speak about details

Alliance Renault-Nissan offers to pay for 25% of AutoVAZ shares during 4 years. The General Manager of State corporation “Rostechnologii”, Sergey Chemezov, informed about it and he reminded that negotiations about sale of shares to AutoVAZ are planned to be finished by the end of this year.

AutoVAZ considers the possibility of dual fuel car on the Lada Granta base at the beginning of 2013, informed the head of department of cars with alternative power installations of AutoVAZ, Sergey Ivlev, in the fifth inter-regional economic forum in Samara.

During the year foreign car parc in Moscow grew by 8.2% and came up to 2.32 million cars. At the same time domestic car parc decreased by 5.4% this year to 1.11 million cars. This data were obtained by AUTOSTAT analysts as a result of Moscow parc structure analysis on 1.10.2011. According to the agency’s data in the middle of this Autumn 3.44 million passenger cars were registered in the capital, that is 3.4% more than a year ago.

AutoVAZ continues to increase its colour palette of models: Priora and Samara will receive a new colour in December. According to data of “AutoSreda”, cars of family Priora and Samara will be coloured in a new colour in December of 2011 –“honeysuckle” (gray-blue “metallic”).

Hyundai Motor CIS Company sold a record number of Hyundai cars by Hyundai Finance program in October of 2011. Hyundai Motor CIS Company explained its success by profitable and easy-to-use offers for a purchase of Hyundai models on credit. It should be reminded that sales of Hyundai cars increased twice in the Russian market to 15537 cars (+102%). It should be also remarked that Hyundai keeps the leadership among foreign cars the second consecutive month.

German producer of premium class cars Mercedes-Benz updates its model range in Russia. As manager of corporative communication department of “Mercedes-Benz Rus”, Andrey Rodionov, informed AUTOSTAT agency, the new coupe of CLS-class appeared in the Russian market in August, the new M-class is being expected in spring of the next year and the new B-Class, design, systems, engines and transmissions of which were upgraded, will be presented in summer.

This year Rolf Import company, Mitsubishi distributor in Russia, set up SUV sales record in the Russian market. Since the beginning of the year Mitsubishi dealers in Russia sold 50,181 SUVs, crossovers and pickups – that is the highest result for the whole brand history in Russia. E.g. the company sold 37,473 SUVs for the same period in the most successful pre-crisis 2008.

According to Oncepto consulting company, in October passenger car and LCV market in Kazakhstan grew 2.1 times and came up to 4,550 cars. During ten months of 2011, the Kazakhstan car market grew more than twice up to 33,613 cars (+103.6%). According to the experts, the market restored to the level of late 2007 and came close to the pre-crisis sales results.

In October passenger car sales in Ukraine grew by 5% up to 18,059 cars. During ten months of 2011 Ukrainian dealers sold 165,668 cars – that is 24.7% more than a year ago. According to Association of Ukrainian car manufacturers Ukravtoprom, in October AvtoVAZ kept its leadership in the new car market. In October Lada dealers in Ukraine sold 2,433 cars, which is 20.2% less than a year ago. The